Peter Fincham

ITV1 launches obesity campaign in winter-spring schedule

ITV1 is to launch a landmark campaign to help fight obesity, which will see celebrities and members of the public pledging to lose weight. The eight-week initiative, which will raise money for charity by getting people to be...

TV industry glad of broadcasters' push into multi-platform

Source: nma.co.uk | Published: 12 November 2008 10:15 Structural moves by ITV and Channel 4 to drive integrated multi-platform projects are expected to help create better digital content, according to production companies....

TV Scoop interview: Hugh Dennis, Outnumbered

Series two of Outnumbered starts this Saturday (BBC One, 15 November, 9pm) and here at TV Scoop we're looking forward to it. It was one of the surprise hits of last year, and many of you loved it and its very real depiction of...

Charles Sale: ITV chief off but was he pushed?

ITV head of sport Mark Sharman has told staff he will be leaving the network at the end of the year to pursue new challenges within the TV industry. But it is still uncertain whether the combative Sharman, who also presided...

ITV to save cash with more documentaries

ITV will air more factual programming next year at the expense of drama as the advertising downturn bites. Jeff Anderson, the ITV controller of current affairs and documentaries, told the Sheffield Doc/Fest 2008 today that the...

Advertising decline at ITV quickens

ITV is preparing for a serious fall in advertising revenues over the final three months of the year, warning yesterday that it expects sales in the final quarter to be almost a tenth down on the same period last year.

ITV Broadcast and Online to merge

ITV is to merge its online and programming operations in a restructure that will see Jeff Henry, managing director of ITV Consumer, step down from the role. Henry, who was responsible for the digital interactive and gaming...

ITV reports 5% drop in sales

Business News: Global arm sees revenue rise 35% -- Blighty’s biggest terrestrial broadcaster ITV has reported a 5% decline in broadcasting sales for the first nine months this year, but in a much-needed optimistic note the...

Michael Grade attacks 'indiscriminate' swearing on television

Michael Grade: 'I don't think we take enough care over the use of the F-word and similar words.' Grade's call follows the Sachsgate row in which Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross left lewd messages on actor Andrew Sachs'...

Maggie Brown: What it means for talent

On Friday morning, hours after Lesley Douglas's resignation, the controllers of all the BBC radio and television networks were called together, and asked to look carefully at everything they were broadcasting. "We're all jumpy....

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